At 10:26 PM 8/28/01 +0300, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> >>Apropos attenuation, any idea why a cellular phone works perfectly (S
> >>meter at 3 of 5 ?!) in a 4 x 2 x 2 meter welded steel safe with the door
> >>closed?
> >>Peter
> >
> >Well, no, but I just gotta ask you how you know this :)
>
>Ever got a call while doing things inside the safe - well strongbox - at
>work?

UHF signals are coming into the box on the skins of wires, conduits, etc.
In one case, I saw a "safe" (room with a vault door) that had a hole above
the ceiling that you could crawl through. It was where a jewelery shop was
keeping it's goods at night.

Things aren't always what they seem.
(Neither was their alarm system)
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